keeping busy keeping still + kwik, kwek & kwak (video work)

a performance by Fabian Barba, Marisa Cabal and Tuur Marinus / Busy Rocks
Length 29'

In the trio keeping busy keeping still, movement is not conceived for one body alone, but is produced in the encounter of the three bodies. Thus the image of the dancer is affected: not a self-propelled virtuoso but an entity that is being moved by the impulses or resistances it comes across.
During the representation, this among three is opened up to an among several when the public is triggered to project expectations about how a body will respond to a specific impulse or impact, or to imagine the next possible constitutions of bodies.
In the video kwik, kwek and kwak we’ve pictured the slapstick character of the time we spent in the studio to develop the first part of keeping busy keeping still’s choreography.